Another annoying night

[corwin]

I had a very annoying night last night, it might worth noting I've been sneezing a lot the past 2 days so I might be comming down with slight cold but I have no other symptoms.

About 2 hours after guesstimating my dinner I tested 194. This is very high for honeymooning me. I corrected with 1u novo which usually drops me by 100-120 and forgot about it. 4 hours after the correction shot, while tossing and turning in bed I started sweating, on my way to turn on the ac I figured I'll test just in case because it can't be that hot. Sure enough I was 53, 1 teaspoon of sugar later I started to feel it strongly. I ate some more carbs and went to bed 45 minutes later with a safe 137 bg level. I had a very restless sleep and when I woke up I tested 62, now I corrected it and everything seems fine except for the headache that lingers for a while after night time hypos and lack of sleep.

That's it for ranting. This condition sure has a way of keeping you on your toes. I don't think there's an explanation for why it happened. Maybe I have a cold and it messed up my bg, maybe my pancreas decided to work harder for some reason, maybe my basal needs to be lowered. Any other ideas?

[Penny]

Corwin, after figuring out I was having allergy attacks during the night, I finally got that straightened out. I did the same thing, sneezed a lot, woke up in sweats(and low), or with a bad headache. A tiny allergy pill before bedtime seemed to solve the problem. Seems like it never ends, doesn't it?

[corwin]

Thanks for the advice Penny, I'll keep it in mind if it happens, I was never allergic to anything but I guess it can always start. Today I wasn't sneezing at all so I think it was probably a slight cold that went away before doing any real harm.

What I think happened is that my need for insulin changed again. I kept going too low during the next day, I decreased my lantus from 16 to 14 and also my bolus amount and I'm still lower then I'd like to be almost every time I test. It's great to find out I need less insulin but I wish the process of finding out wouldn't get me hypo 4 times a day and make me force so much sugar in my system. Even on 14 lantus I got to 59 in the middle of the night, I'll give it another day then drop it a bit more if it doesn't stablize.